Intermittent preventive therapy for malaria: arguments in favour of artesunate and sulphamethoxypyrazine - pyrimethamine combination
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Recent publications put a serious warning regarding the inefficacy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for the intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in young children (IPTi). Recommendations for other therapies are being made. By using a different and bette...
Main Author: | Jansen Frans |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-03-01
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Series: | Malaria Journal |
Online Access: | http://www.malariajournal.com/content/10/1/70 |
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